Device for feeding tobacco in cigarette-machines.



No. 709,507. I Patented Sept. 23,1902.

J. PAUL.

DEVICE FOR FEEDING TOBACCO IN CIGARETTE MACHINES.

(Application filed Au .'24, 1901.

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No. 709,507. Patehted Sept. 23, I902.

- J. PAUL.

DEVICE FOR FEEDING TOBACCO IN CIGARETTE MACHINES.

(Application filed Aug. 24, 1901.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

JOSEF PAUL, OF DRESDEN-STRIESEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO FEINMASCHL NENBAUG. CALBERLA, G. M. B. H., OF DRESDEN, SAXONY, GERMANY.

DEVICE FOR FEEDING TOBACCO IN CIGARETTE-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,507, datedSeptember 23, 1902. Application filed August 24, 1901. Serial No.73,189. (No model.)

To [tZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOSEF PAUL, a subject of the King of Saxony,residing at Dresden- Striesen, in the Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for FeedingTobacco in Cigarette-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

My present invention relates to improvements in devices for feedingtobacco in cigarette-machines, and the advantage of my improvements overexisting devices of the kind is that the rollers by which the tobacco I5is transported and simultaneously loosened are driven at a uniformvelocity, while the small rollers by which the tobacco is removed fromthe transport-rollers are so constructed and arranged as to thoroughlymix the tobacco.

In the accompanying drawings are shown two ways of carrying out myinvention, both in section.

Referring to Figure 1, at the lower end of the hopper a are arranged tworollers I), provided on their peripheries with a number of teethinclined in opposite directions. These rollers are rotated in contrarydirections, as shown by the arrows. The tobacco thrown into the hopper ais conveyed right and left around the outer halves of the rollers b,from which it is removed by the small rollers (1. These rollers dlikewise are provided with teeth and rotated in opposite directions, sothat the tobacco will be thrown together and then" pass in a thoroughlymixed condition through the outlet 6 into the shaping-wheel f. In orderto prevent too much tobacco from being drawn around the rollers 11 andaconsequent o stopping of the machine, are provided rollers g, which arearranged above and quite or approximately in contact with the teeth ofthe roller b and are rotated at a high velocity in.

the direction of the arrows.

In Fig. 2 the construction is somewhat simpler. As in Fig. 1, there aretwo rollers 19, which rotate in opposite directions, and underneaththese rollers are likewise provided smaller toothed rollers d. Thetobacco thrown into the hopperc passes between the large rollers 11 andis removed by the oppositely-rotating rollers d, passing then throughthe outlet to the shaping-wheel. As the to bacco is thrown by therollers (1 against the sides of the hopper it is loosened as much aspossible. To prevent too much tobacco from passing between the rollers12, a triangular knife is arranged between the rollers at the top, bywhich the excess quantity is cut ofi.

A similar knife Z is arranged between the rollers at the bottom andserves the same purpose.

WhatI claim,and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,is-' 1. A tobacco-feed device for cigarette-mak ing machines, comprisingin combination a hopper, two oppositely rotating toothed rollers at thelower end of said hopper which rotate at the same speed, and two smallertoothed rollers adapted to remove the tobacco from the first rollers andthoroughly mix the same, substantially as set forth.

2. A tobacco-feed device for cigarette-making machines, comprising incombination, a hopper, two oppositely rotating toothed rollers at thelower end of said hopper which 7 5 rotate at the same speed, two smallertoothed rollers adapted to remove the tobacco from the first rollers andthoroughly mix the same, and rollers, one in contact with each of thefirst-named rollers and adapted by quickly So rotating to prevent thepassage of too much tobacco, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

J OSEF PAUL.

Witnesses HERM. TEIOH, PAUL ARRAS.

